Thrillers

Sunday, 26 June 2016

The EU referendum has set the UK nation at one another's
throats, young against old, rich against poor, Scots (who
overwhelmingly voted Remain) against anyone who voted 'Leave'.
Many are saying this vote was the chance for the disaffected to voice
their anger at the way the Government has ridden roughshod over the
industrial north, the midlands, the forgotten southwest, in fact anywhere
outside of London. If this is the case then why did no one see this result
coming? Is the Government so out of touch with the people that from its ivory towers
it has lost sight of what’s important to the nation – what frightens and what gels
people? Is there no interest in anything that happens outside of the capital?

At the last election the Prime Minister, David
Cameron, offered the referendum to the people - guaranteed that if they
voted Conservative he would deliver it – and he did. I don't know whether at
the time it was a ploy to gain voters or a genuine altruistic gesture to
give the people a voice on an organisation that he and his party must have felt
was causing problems. After all you wouldn't offer a referendum on something
that was not causing problems – would you? Whatever his motives, there is an
old adage that says "You don't offer a referendum unless you know
you're going to win". Now, either he'd never heard of the saying or
he just assumed that, when he went to the EU to campaign to rewrite our
terms of membership, Donald Tusk, (president
of the European council) would agree to his demands. Tusk and his
colleagues didn't agree.

Then a few weeks later we began getting the scare
stories – vote Remain or the economy will collapse, our security will
be weakened, there could be war ... it was like someone had told Cameron and
his colleagues that there was a remote chance that some people might vote
Leave and maybe he should stop saying we can survive outside the EU and
scaremonger those independent thinkers and Euro sceptics back into the
fold. Then we had President Obama telling us we should remain
in the EU – suggesting that if we left then the 'special relationship'
between our countries would somehow be irreparably damaged. Many
people who felt the sovereignty of the UK was being lost under EU
interference didn't take kindly to President Obama threatening us with excommunication –
telling us to cow-tow to the EU or else. We know that the UK being part of the
EU benefits the US in many ways – and maybe President Obama was worried that
this way into the continent of Europe would be lost to the US. (I wonder how he
would take it if our PM suggested that he allow another nation to control his
future?)

A plethora of scare stories began to abound
from both the Remain and the Leave camps. So much so that people didn't
know what to believe and what not to. The worst of this was that the
politicians and gurus offering these warnings seemed to have their own agendas (party
leadership – personal gains – financial interests) so could we believe them? The
financial institutions – the ones who told us a few years ago that we would
be finished if we didn't join the Euro – pitched in too. But
what no one, except the people living in those regions of the UK, was
seeing was the effect of the deprivation, the growing food banks, the zero hours contracts,
the closed high street shops, infrastructures unable to cope, not enough
houses being built and the fact that we could not control our borders.
David Cameron had said he would get immigration down to the tens of thousands –
that failed. The question of immigration became a huge issue on both the for and against the EU sides. People who wanted controls placed on
immigration were being made to feel like racists – when all they wanted was to
control the influx, so that the country could budget for the numbers
coming in and get the infrastructure in a position where it could cope (which
it’s not doing at the moment). But the free movement of the EU membership
prevented that. Of course then there were scare stories about poorer
countries joining the EU and whether that influx of economic migrants into this
country would be capable of being controlled. People who felt that the sovereignty of this
country was being eroded were being called ‘Little Englanders’ – when all they
wanted was for the elected Government of this country to be setting the rules
for the nation – and if that government cocked-up then the nation had the
facility to vote it out – something that can’t be done with the EU.

So there we have it – scaremongering from all sides,
an out-of-touch arrogance from the Government and 52% of the electorate which felt
disenfranchised by an unelectable and remote body.

June 23rd 2016 will certainly go down
in history – maybe as the voting person’s revolution, but there is no going
back and, now, we must get on with endeavouring to heal the rift between the
Leave and Remain camps and put this great country back on the global rails.

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Coming Soon to Kindle: THE PARADIGM CULTURE

A man becomes plagued by amazing powers, but where have they come from and why him? And can he believe Government scientists when they say they'll rid him of them? Is being able to kill at a thought just too good an opportunity for the Military to let go?

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